# credo
## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English credo, from Old French credo, from Latin crēdō (“I believe”); doublet of creed.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈkɹidəʊ/, /ˈkɹeɪdəʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈkɹidoʊ/, /ˈkɹeɪdoʊ/
* Hyphenation: cre‧do
* Rhymes: -iːdəʊ

### Noun

credo (plural credos or credoes)
* A statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself.
    credo quia absurdum
** 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 22 May 2019:“You’re either with me or you’re against me” became Dany’s credo, and those against her were an ever-changing multitude to be determined solely by her whims.
* (Christianity) The liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services.
    Credo III is so beautiful!
** 1996, Pastoral Music, volume 21, page 12:Until the mid-1970s, however, most Catholic hymnals contained at least one musical setting of the creed […] By the 1980s hymnals having sung credos were mainly those devoted to "traditional" styles of church music […]

#### Derived terms

* credobaptist

#### Further reading

* “credo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “credo”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* OCRed, Coder, cored, coder, Dorce, decor, décor

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch crede, credo, borrowed from Latin crēdō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkreː.doː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: cre‧do
* Rhymes: -eːdoː

### Noun

credo n (plural credo's, diminutive credootje n)
* (religion, chiefly Christianity) confession of faith, creed
    Synonyms: belijdenis, geloofsbelijdenis
* (by extension) (strong) conviction
    Synonym: overtuiging

#### Derived terms

* credobord
* credo-tekst

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: kredo

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkre.do/
* Rhymes: -edo
* Hyphenation: cré‧do

### Etymology 1

From Latin credō.

#### Noun

credo m (plural credi)
* creed

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

credo
* first-person singular present indicative of credere
    Credo. ― I believe.

### Anagrams

* cedro, cedrò, corde, crode

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱred-dʰeh₁-ti (“to place one's heart, i.e. to trust, believe”), compound phrase of oblique case form of *ḱḗr (“heart”) (whence also Latin cor) and *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”) (whence -dō (“put”)).
Cognates include Sanskrit श्रद्-√धा (śrad-√dhā, “to trust, believe”) and Old Irish creitid (“believes”, verb).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkreː.doː/, [ˈkreːd̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkre.do/, [ˈkrɛːd̪o]

### Verb

crēdō (present infinitive crēdere, perfect active crēdidī, supine crēditum); third conjugation
* (with accusative or dative) to believe, to trust in, to give credence to
** c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 3.4:Tune huic credis?Do you believe him?
** c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 3.4:Aristophontes: Quid tu autem? Etiam huic credis? Hegio: Quid ego credam huic? Aristophontes: Insanum esse me?Aristophontes: How’s this? You, too? Do you actually believe him? Hegio: Believe him in what? Aristophontes: That I’m insane?
* to confide in, have confidence in
    Synonyms: cōnfīdō, fīdō
    Antonyms: diffīdō, suspiciō
* to think, imagine, suppose, assume
    Synonyms: cēnseō, iūdicō, putō, cōgitō, sentiō, exīstimō, arbitror, opīnor, reor
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.500–502:Nōn tamen Anna novīs praetexere fūnera sacrīs / germānam crēdit, nec tantōs mente furōrēs / concipit [...].Yet Anna cannot imagine [that] her sister [Dido], by [these] unusual rituals, conceals her [own] funeral preparations, nor does such insanity come to mind [...].
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.518:quis tantum fātī crēdat habēre locum?Who could imagine the place to have so great a destiny?
* to commit or consign something to one for preservation, protection, etc., to entrust to one
* to lend, to loan

#### Usage notes

* Crēdō often governs the dative with persons believed in, but the accusative with things or concepts believed in. The accusative may be accompanied by a preposition: Crēdō in ūnum Deum = "I believe in one God".

#### Derived terms

* accrēdō
* concrēdō
* crēdibilis
* crēdibiliter
* crēditor
* crēditrīx
* crēditum
* crēdulitās
* crēdulus
* incrēdibilis
* incrēdibilitās
* incrēdibiliter
* incrēditus
* incrēdulitās
* incrēdulus
* recrēdō

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: cred
** Romanian: crede
* Dalmatian:
** credro
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: crede, creda
    Gallurese: cridé
    Sassarese: cridì
** Italian: credere
** Neapolitan: credere
** Sicilian: crìdiri
* Western Romance of N. Italy:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Ligurian: crédde
*** Lombard: cred, credir, creiar, creir
*** Piedmontese: chërde, crèje, creire, crése, cherzì
** Friulian: crodi
** Istriot: crido
** Romansch: crair, crer, creir, crajer
** Venetan: crédar, créder
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: creure
** Franco-Provençal: crêre
** Old French: croire (see there for further descendants)
** Gascon: créder, créger, crer
** Old Occitan: creire, creser, crey, creyer, crer
*** Languedocien: creire, créser
*** Limousin: creure
* Ibero-Romance:
** Navarro-Aragonese: creder, creer, creyer
*** Aragonese: creyer, crier, creder; creure (Ribagorçan)
** Old Leonese: [Term?]
*** Asturian: creyer
*** Extremaduran: creel
*** Leonese: creyere
*** Mirandese: crer
** Old Galician-Portuguese: creer
*** Galician: crer
*** Portuguese: crer
** Old Spanish: creyer, creer
*** Spanish: creer
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: crèdere, crèere, crei, crèiri, crere
Borrowings based on the phrase crēdō in Deum (“I believe in God”) in the Nicene Creed:
* → Catalan: credo
* → Czech: krédo
* → Middle Dutch: crēdō, crēde
** Dutch: credo
*** → Indonesian: kredo
* → Old English: crēda, crēdo
** Middle English: crede
*** English: creed
*** Scots: creed
* → Franco-Provençal: crédô
* → Old French: credo
** Middle French: credo
*** French: credo
** → Middle English: credo
*** English: credo
* → Middle High German: crēdō
** German: Credo
* → Hungarian: krédó
* → Italian: credo
* → Old Norse: credo
** Icelandic: credo
** Old Swedish: credo
*** Swedish: credo
** Old Danish: credo
*** Danish: credo
* → Old Occitan: credo
** Occitan: credo
* → Polish: credo
* → Portuguese: credo
* → Spanish: credo

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “crēdō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 141-142

### Further reading

* “credo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “credo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* credo in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* credo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. I am gradually convinced that..: addūcor, ut credam I cannot make myself believe that..: non possum adduci, ut (credam) we believe in the existence of a God: deum esse credimus to lend some one money (without interest): pecuniam alicui credere (sine fenore, usuris) believe me: mihi crede (not crede mihi)
* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French credo, from Latin crēdō (“I believe”) in the Nicene Creed or Apostle's Creed. Doublet of crede.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkrɛːdɔː/

### Noun

credo (uncountable)
* The Nicene Creed or Apostle's Creed.

#### Descendants

* English: credo

#### References

* “crēdō, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Old English
### Noun

crēda m
* crēda

## Old French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crēdō (“I believe”) in the Nicene Creed or Apostle's Creed.

### Noun

credo oblique singular, m (nominative singular credo)
* The Nicene Creed or Apostle's Creed.

#### Descendants

* Middle French: credo
** French: credo
* → Middle English: credo
** English: credo

#### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “crēdĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1306

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* kredo

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin crēdō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkrɛ.dɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛdɔ
* Syllabification: cre‧do
* Homophone: kredo

### Noun

credo n (indeclinable)
* (Christianity) credo (liturgical creed (usually the Nicene Creed), or a musical arrangement of it for use in church services)
* credo (belief system)

### Further reading

* credo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* credo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin credō (“to believe”). Doublet of creio.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾɛ.du/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾɛ.du/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɾɛ.do/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɾɛ.du/ [ˈkɾɛ.ðu]
* Hyphenation: cre‧do

### Noun

credo m (plural credos)
* (religion) creed; credo (a religious belief system)
    Synonyms: crença, religião
    Antonym: descrença
    O credo cristão.The Christian creed.

#### Related terms

* acreditar
* credência
* creditado
* crédito
* crédulo
* crer

### Interjection

credo!
* ew! (expression of disgust or nausea)
    Synonym: (Brazil) eca
* Jesus! (expression of unpleasant surprise)
    Synonyms: Jesus, (Brazil) nossa

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin credo.

### Noun

credo n (uncountable)
* credo (belief system)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin credō (“to believe”). Doublet of creo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɾedo/ [ˈkɾe.ð̞o]
* Rhymes: -edo
* Syllabification: cre‧do

### Noun

credo m (plural credos)
* (religion) creed

#### Related terms

* creer

### Further reading

* “credo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Anagrams

* cedro, cerdo

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈkrɛdɔ/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈkreːdɔ/, /ˈkrɛdɔ/

### Verb

credo
* (literary) third-person singular present subjunctive of credu

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.